Reviews
Album, EP and single reviews from The Skinny. Find reviews of the biggest new releases, as well as new records from up-and-coming new artists from across Scotland, the UK and beyond.
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AlbumsThe Minus 5 - Killingsworth
The Minus 5 remain relatively obscure, which is astonishing when you consider that past line-ups have included members of Sonic Youth and Wilco, as well as E... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
AlbumsCast Spells - Bright Works and Baton
Better known as Maps & Atlases’ chief guitar-noodler, David Davison’s Cast Spells project is the sonic antithesis to his math-based day job. ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Singles
Peaches - Lose You
Forty-year-old Beth Nisker is better known as her overbearing and filthy alter ego Peaches. However, with Lose You, the second single from new album I Feel C... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Telegraphs - We Were Ghosts
It would be too easy to dismiss We Were Ghosts as an emo record released by a band full of pretty people who fool no one with the heavy eye make-up. There's ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Cicada - Roulette
Q. How many crap electro pop groups will it take to make you hold a pistol to your temple? A. This many. Cicada are really going to wish they hadn’t ti... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
AlbumsAlabaster Suns - Alabaster Suns
Southern's PR team seem pretty confident that Alabaster Suns are reinventing the wheel on this weighty five-track debut, with their assertion that “com... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009
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Angel Brothers - Angel Brothers
It occurs to this writer that folk music, by definition, should theoretically be exempt from accusations of a lack of innovation, because that’s sort o... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
SinglesAlan McKim - Living in the City
Alan McKim's vocal delivery on Living In The City haphazardly treads the fine line between passionate and forced. Musically, it's anonymously ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness
Hailing from the Arts & Crafts stable, Apostle of Hustle are a suitably patchwork ensemble of artists, most notably Andrew Whiteman of Broken Social Scen... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Spinnerette - Spinnerette LP
After a marriage, a child and a whole mess of label problems, Brody Dalle's new outfit has finally landed. Featuring fellow ex-Distiller Tony Bevilacqua, Ala... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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The Mars Volta - Ochtahedron
When your debut album is a modern masterpiece that undulates from the proggy stratospheres right down to the gritty slums of salsa-punk, you’re left wi... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
Singles
Sharem Jey - In My Blood
Remix overkill from Sharem Jay's second single Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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6 Day Riot - 6 Day Riot Have A Plan
Glaswegian singer/songwriter Tamara Schlesinger suffered a setback last year when half her band split on the eve of a tour. Luckily for us, ambition won out ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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Engineers - Three Fact Fader
It’s appropriate that the droning opening track to Three Fact Fader builds out of silence, as it reflects Engineers' emergence from uncertain times. Al... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
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Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
Before I even listened to Malcolm Middleton’s fifth studio album, I decided I was going to write the whole review without using the words “misera... Read more »| 23 Jun 2009